Can Do

I can do it.

I didn’t know I could. I really didn’t know. Really!

For most of my life I truly thought I was a guy…with issues. Just like everyone else. We all have our secrets. Most of us have those thoughts that we never share with anyone else. Maybe we don’t because we are afraid what people will think. Maybe we are just embarrassed. Maybe we would be arrested. They are part of our private thoughts that we hold on to, inside.

They are very private and very guarded.

Sometimes those thoughts begin to fight back. Maybe those thoughts are really a sign of something deeper. We created therapy to help answer our questions, our fears, our sudden panics and our blackest moments.

And suddenly, those thoughts suddenly need to be addressed.

That is what happened to me. All my life my gender never felt right. My deep secret was, I constantly would wish, even pray, to wake up a girl. I never understood why and the world around me had no way to explain it. Instead, I was taught to suppress and hide that thought in order to survive and fit into the world around me.

It worked. I got really good at it.

But the world that trained and nurtured me started to change. The ignorance that allowed me to successfully suppress my gender questions began to erode. The impossible…